Mount Thorne
| Mount Thorne | ||
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| height | 1465 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Thorne is a prominent mountain in the Queen Maud Mountains of 1465 m . It rises on the eastern flank of the Amundsen Glacier about 10 km northwest of Mount Goodale in the Hays Mountains .
He was discovered in December 1929 by the team around the geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) during the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The mountain is named after George Arthur Thorne (1901–1939), topographer and sled dog handler of the said team.
Web links
- Mount Thorne in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Thorne on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1566 (English).